Most Popular Posts Of The Month I regularly share my picks for the most useful posts of each month. I also have tried publish a list of the month’s most popular posts, based on the number of times they are “clicked-on.” I’m very behind on that one, though. I also share a list of ...
Update On My Book(s) You can now pre-order my upcoming book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges, on Amazon, if you’d like. It appears the publisher, Eye on Education, is pushing the release date up and saying it will be ...
More Reasons Why Class Size Matters In response to Bill Gates’ rather bizarre and tortured call for *increased*class sizesyesterday, several writers have posted useful resources. I’m adding these to The Best Resources For Learning About How Class Size Does Matter: Can We Improve ...
Some Nice Online Games For English Language Learners Sensdom has created a number of nice and free online games for English Language Learners. They appear to just be getting started, but they also appear to have a lot of potential. I think students might find them engaging, and they include audio ...
Story Corps Launches National Teachers Initiatve Story Corps, which collects peoples…stories, and which I suspect many of us listen to on NPR in the morning, has recently launched a National Teachers Initiative. Here’s how they describe it: *StoryCorps’ National Teachers Initiative will collect, ...
Protests In History Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About Protests In History: The 10 best protest songs – in pictures comes from The Guardian. Ordinary folks changing the world is an interesting slideshow from Salon that includes some ...
Ed Week To Host Online Chat About My Upcoming Book It’s a ways away, but I wanted readers to know that Education Week will be hosting an online chat with me on April 12th. I’ll post more details as the time grows closer. It’s titled “Helping Students Motivate Themselves” and will take place on ...
Carnivals Are On Their Way! Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Mardi Gras & Carnivals: Carnival Around The World is a Wall Street Journal slideshow. Carnival season kicks off in Venice, Nice and Viareggio is a slideshow from The Telegraph.
